Borepatch

A port from ten years ago, but evergreen today.  I guess that ten years of losing hasn't wised up the Democrats. Maladapted Thi...

Windmills kill far more wildlife than has been previously reported: “There is strong evidence that many insect populations are under ser...

And Russia, Venezuela, and Saudi Arabia : “Fracking” plays (Oil Speak Note: Play = producing oil well) are normally for four years, with ...

Heh : There is new, direct, observational evidence that the most effective thing we could do to reduce CO2 levels in the atmosphere is pa...

One of the benefits of fracking has been a substantial reduction in the cost of natural gas.  This has caused a lot of coal fired electric g...

Ever wonder what happens to all the recycling you so dutifully do?  Most of it gets dumped . Gasoline sales are not down to 1970s levels. ...

The world has plenty of food.  It has distribution problems (Stalin's famine in the Ukraine), but it seems that we currently grow enough...

Long time readers know that it's not often that I don my Wookie Suit and hit the low crawl down the slit trench.  But this makes my skin...

Here's something that you don't hear much of amid the current well-organized ZOMG Thermageddon press blitz: the developing world ca...

It can't be realistic policy - that requires a suspension of disbelief of epic proportions - and so the new World Wildlife Fund report c...

This is what I think Earth Hour looks like: A little creepy when you call me a Thought Criminal because I'm using this picture, isn...

Well, Queensland (one of the most populous states in Oz) just did : Labor has been reduced to only a handful of seats, with the ABC electio...

This is the real deal. Newt said a while back that there were ideas that are as clear as 2 + 2 = 4 .  This is one of those, as simple an...

Do it for teh Childrenz™.

The wind : The turbine in a North Ayrshire wind farm caught fire on Thursday afternoon as storms hit the country. ... A wind turbine we...

It's not what you might think.  As budgets all across the EU come under pressure from the creaking sovereign debt train wreck unfolding ...

Wow: The Global Village Construction Set is Open Source designs for the 50 industrial machines needed to make a civilization.  They have...

Me, I don't hate women or gays.  Or native peoples.  Or the environment. I'm all over this Ethical Oil idea like stink on a ...

I mean, clear cutting old forest in Vermont ? Some well spoken and well meaning opposition to a wind power project in northeastern Vermont ...

The Oz.Gov is fixin' to shoot feral camels.  Is it because they're an imported, invasive fauna (like rabbits)?  Nope.  It's for ...